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Adam D. Smith

As a Quantitative Ecologist with the United States Fish & Wildlife Service Inventory and Monitoring Program, I provide ecological inventory and monitoring design and analytical assistance to the roughly 130 National Wildlife Refuges. In addition, I engage in diverse partnerships with conservation and resource management agencies and organizations to support a research program built around modern quantitative tools and approaches to understand the ecology and conservation of migratory animals. Most of my active projects are collaborative and integrate digitally-coded telemetry or GPS logging technology to answer landscape and local scale questions relevant to conservation and management. I am an open science advocate.

Education

Ph.D., Environmental Science (avian ecology focus)

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2013

  • Thesis: Migration and stopover ecology of songbirds and bats along a major ecological barrier

M.S., Raptor Biology

Boise State University

Boise, ID

2006

  • Thesis: Exploring raptor migration using stable isotope analysis: the Northern Goshawk in western North America

B.S., Wildlife Biology

Murray State University

Murray, KY

2000

Professional Experience

Quantitative Ecologist

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

Athens, GA

2020 - 2015

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2015 - 2013

Research Associate

University of Florida

N/A

2008

Avian Research Technician II/III

Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

Frankfort, KY

2007 - 2005

Research Assistant

Kentucky Gap Analysis Project

Murray, KY

2001 - 1999

N/A

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Publications

Patient-specific risk factors independently influence survival in Myelodysplastic Syndromes in an unbiased review of EHR records

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2019

Patient specific comorbidities impact overall survival in myelofibrosis

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2019

R timelineViz: Visualizing the distribution of study events in longitudinal studies

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2018

Continuous Classification using Deep Neural Networks

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam

N/A

2017

Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD

Journal of Human Immunology

N/A

2015

An Agent Based Model of Mysis Migration

International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference

N/A

2015

Declines of Mysis diluviana in the Great Lakes

Journal of Great Lakes Research

N/A

2015

Grants

Asterisks (*) indicate I was integral to project development, design, and implementation, but not an official PI due to institutional policies.

Local and post-breeding movements of Painted Buntings associated with molt

Carolina Bird Club

N/A

2019

  • co-PI with Aaron Given (Town of Kiawah Island, SC)
  • $3,500

*Evaluating the use of autonomous recording units (ARUs) to survey Black Rails

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

N/A

2018

  • PI Susan McRae (East Carolina University)
  • $19,715

*Inventory and assessment of secretive marshbirds: using eDNA to determine occupancy with a focus on Eastern Black Rail and King Rail

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

N/A

2017

  • PI Susan McRae (East Carolina University)
  • $27,352

*Black Rail ecology to inform effective survey design and support population modelling

U.S. Geological Survey

N/A

2016

  • PI Clint Moore (U.S. Geological Survey)
  • $172,907

Secretive marsh bird surveys on southeastern National Wildlife Refuges

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

N/A

2016

  • co-PI with Whitney Biessler (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
  • $92,700

Seasonal connectivity of MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrow

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

N/A

2016

  • co-PI with Aaron Given (Town of Kiawah Island, SC)
  • $11,750

*Seasonal connectivity of MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrrow

Carolina Bird Club

N/A

2016

  • co-PI with Aaron Given (Town of Kiawah Island, SC)
  • $4,800

*Automated telemetry monitoring of migratory birds

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

N/A

2014

  • PI Scott McWilliams (University of Rhode Island)
  • $7,426

*Acoustic monitoring of migrating bats and birds of Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

N/A

2010

  • PI Scott McWilliams (University of Rhode Island)
  • $33,038

*Rapid assessment of fruits available to songbirds during fall migration

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

N/A

2008

  • PI Scott McWilliams (University of Rhode Island)
  • $9,276

*Migratory connectivity: linking raptors to their breeding areas

Idaho Department of Fish & Game

N/A

2002

  • PI Al Dufty (Boise State University)
  • $17,900

Frank M. Chapman Memorial Research Grant

American Museum of Natural History

N/A

2002

E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award

Association of Field Ornithologists

N/A

2002

Presentations

Teaching Experience

Improving your visualization in Python

DataCamp

N/A

2019

Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2018 - 2017

Statistical Computing in R

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2017

Head Teaching Assistant

Boise State University

Boise, ID

2004

Teaching Assistant

Boise State University

Boise, ID

2003 - 2001